Atylotus Osten Sacken, 1876
(a genus of horseflies)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
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ID refs
Atylotus fulvus
Golden Horsefly
Female (Click to open)
 		Species 10 images
Atylotus latistriatus
Saltmarsh Horsefly
(Click to open)
 		Species 10 images
Atylotus rusticus
Four-lined Horsefly
Female (Click to open)
 		Species 53 images 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
GenusAtylotus (a genus of horseflies)
FamilyTABANIDAE (horseflies, deerflies, gad flies, stouts, clegs, horsefly)
SuperfamilyTABANOIDEA (horseflies, snipe flies & water snipe flies)
InfraorderTabanomorpha (horseflies, snipe flies & soldier flies)
SuborderBRACHYCERA (short-horned flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Atylotus (a genus of horseflies) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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A small genus of rare Horseflies, with different species associated with ditches on grazing levels, saltmarshes or bogs.

Distinguished from the commoner Horsefly genera by the clear unpatterned wings, femora mostly yellow or orange and halteres and antennal aegments 1-3 pale.

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